<div dir="ltr">I pronounce it In-EAR-ay.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:55 AM, aaron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaronsingleton@gmail.com" target="_blank">aaronsingleton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">And while we're on the Subject of Father Inire, how do you (and anyone else on the list, as well) pronounce the name? I find myself reading it as In-Ire, just like the two words. The audiobook reader says In-Eerie. That makes no sense to me. Just curious about this.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:48 AM, aaron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaronsingleton@gmail.com" target="_blank">aaronsingleton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Ah, Encyclopedia Brown! I loved those growing up. I think Rudesind is the most blatant Inire-like character. It is from his mouth we first hear the name Fechin, if I'm not mistaken. It is also Rudesind who knows the true context of the Astronaut picture . Rudesind is next seen in the House Absolute, seemingly unsurprised at Severian's presence there--as if he expected Sev. It always seemed to me as if Rudesind implies that the House Absolute and The Citadel are connected. There are probably other instances of his Inire-y behavior, but I am too lazy at the moment to think of them.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Lee Berman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com" target="_blank">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">>aaron: Anyone have any good theories about Fechin?<br>
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Good theories? I don't know about that. But I think it is a<br>
reasonable guess to think that Wolfe based part of<br>
the character on Russian artist Nicolai Fechin. It took some<br>
digging but I think I have determined, from younger self-portraits,<br>
that both Fechins have red hair.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolai_Fechin" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolai_Fechin</a><br>
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My not-so-good theory is that Fechin is another incarnation of<br>
Father Inire. Like Borski, I think that Inire's absence is an<br>
invitation for the reader to find him, wherever he might appear,<br>
though I do think I have a better explanation for why Inire would appear<br>
so many times.<br>
<br>
The tools we are given to conduct the search are the constellation<br>
of things we know about Inire: appearing small, bent, old, monkey-like,<br>
an association with art and museums, a lech for young human women, and<br>
perhaps a few others. Each appearance of Inire will demonstrate some<br>
of the characteristics, but none will display all of them. That's the<br>
puzzle I think we are presented.<br>
<br>
With Fechin we have the characteristics of art, old, monkey-like and<br>
the lech. Moreover we have Rudesind as a bridging character between<br>
Fechin and Father Inire, speaking of both as though they were his master.<br>
<br>
(not to ignore that Rudesind himself is small, old, bent, monkey-like and<br>
associated with art and museums. Rudesind describes a painting that Fechin<br>
made of him when he was a boy. The painting has paintbrushes shown next to<br>
him. It is an old mystery-solving trope, e.g. Encyclopedia Brown or<br>
Hardy Boys, where the mystery is solved when it is recognized that a painting<br>
of someone with paintbrushes is a self-portrait)<br>
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